A Year in Flora and Fauna: Summer 2010

The highlights of the long, hot summer: a garden design project in the front yard and a road trip from LA to San Francisco (incl. a hiking trip near Monterey and stops at the LA zoo and SF park garden).













California:

A Year in Flora and Fauna: Late Winter/Spring 2010

Sometimes it's nice to look back at all that's bloomed over the year. These are some of my favorite images from my garden and hikes around Austin (the wildflowers were so amazing this year).

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day: December 2010

Thought I'd start with a few photos of blooms that are doing well right now.



The rest of the blooms are pretty much the same as the past couple of months, but with some cold weather damage (and by cold weather, I mean a few nights that got around freezing). A lot of leggy, scruffy perennials...can't wait to cut them back after a real freeze. Also, excuse all the leaves. Wednesday afternoon is raking time.








To see other gardens on this bloom day, go to May Dreams Garden, where Carol hosts this monthly event.

Easter Egg Radishes

Okay, so this is an example of planting seeds because of the name. I don't actually eat radishes, but I'll attempt to do something with these. I think I let them get too spicy, but maybe sliced thin with some goat cheese on bread? Mostly, I just like how cute they are. Planted some rainbow chard (transplant) in its place in the square foot garden. Also put in some Italian parsley, a hollyhock (only one of my seeds came up), and mint, which I hope will jump the corner of the bed to the granite. We'll see.

A monarch caterpillar journey

This caterpillar was sitting motionless on a broccoli leaf (in the bed below) for an hour. When I moved him to the butterfly weed, he went right into action.

More fall color at Walnut Creek